
Three decades ago, All in the Family started the controversy ball rolling by featuring Archie Bunker’s barking bigotry against the backdrop of his quarrelsome yet loving family. That was a new and shocking dose of reality in a sitcom, but the program I reeeally came to love was the first family-featured reality show The Osbournes (MTV, 2002-2005) starring rock star Ozzy, his wife Sharon and two of their kids — because they reminded me of my own family in so many ways (uh, sans the rock-n-roll drugs, bats, goth crosses and non-housebroken dog pack, that is). What I instantly recognized was their snappy loud-mouthed, high functioning family dynamic.
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